100 Things About Me

1. I grew up on the east coast and now live on the west coast.
2. I have one brother and no sisters.
3. Even though I grew up in NH, I hate the cold and get cold very easily.
4. I was a very bad student until late high school.
5. I was a pretty good student in college.
6. I had to drop out of college for financial reasons.
7. I generally live in clutter.
8. I'm almost always multi-tasking which is why I like to knit, it means I can be lazy and productive at the same time.
9. When I lived in Boston, I remember having road rage.
10. Now that I live in LA I see the pointlessness of it and simply put on NPR and take it as it comes.
11. I have low blood pressure.
12. Strengths: creativity, ability to see issues from all sides, innovative, kind hearted, realistic with optimistic leanings, liberal ;o).
13. Weaknesses: unorganized, prone to overextending myself, non-confrontational to a fault.
14. I am not religious.
15. I enjoy a good philosophical or political debate amongst friends, especially when someone can honestly challenge me.
16. I hate peas.
17. I don't care for beans (the jelly variety are excluded from this statement).
18. I dislike chickpeas (garbanzo beans) but love humus and falafel.
19. I'm not the kind of person who will sit down and eat a bag of chips or a pint of ice cream, I get bored of a single food.
20. I love cartoons.
21. It is rare that I'll watch any hour long "drama" show.
22. I enjoy RPG video games.
23. I'm old enough to know better.
24. I've been going gray since my early 20s.
25. I rarely wear makeup but have enough in my house to rival Tammy Faye.
26. I used to take a lot of dance classes in junior high and high school.
27. I loved it and worked at my dance studio to pay for my supplies.
28. I lost my passion for it in college because the classes were usually held at 8am.
29. I briefly danced after college but never found a studio that suited me.
30. The last studio convinced me to perform in their recital and competition. I agreed to do it but was so embarrassed to have to ask for time off for a recital, that I never went back again.
31. My dream job would involve lots of knitting and lots of time doing stuff on the computer.
32. During the weekends, I do a lot of a knitting and spend a lot of time on the computer.
33. I usually stop frequenting establishments once I'm considered a "regular".
34. I firmly believe it is rude to wear white or black to someone else's wedding.
35. I cannot enjoy a meal or snack without having a glass of water and a napkin at hand.
36. I rarely wear skirts and nearly never wear shorts.
37. I can probably count the number of time I've used a hair dryer on my hair, on one hand.
38. The thought of living in a small town, far from the city, is horrifying to me.
39. I grew up in a small town, far from the city.
40. I love to travel.
41. I believe that most people cannot honestly justify owning an SUV.
42. I think it's reprehensible to own a Hummer.
43. I don't buy music very often.
44. I don't listen to music very often.
45. I listen to talk radio for 10-12 hours a day (while at work and on my commute).
46. I don't play any musical instruments.
47. I would rather pump my own gas than have it done for me.
48. I would rather park my own car than have a valet do it.
49. I have a comically bad sense of direction.
50. I confuse my right and left.
51. I refuse to play the lottery.
52. I refuse to read horoscopes.
53. I took the Massachusetts motorcycle safety course, twice. Once by myself and once with my boyfriend who didn't want to go alone.
54. I was not a dog person until I got my first dog in 2001.
55. My parents had a dog when I was quite young. I remember him but was fine with the fact that we never got a replacement dog.
56. My best friend's mother ran a wildlife rehabilitation center out of their house.
57. I did a lot of volunteer work there and liked it well enough but still wouldn't consider myself an animal person.
58. Evidence suggests that happiness is hard work. I think it's worth every effort.
59. No one can convince me that creationism should be taught along side evolution in a science class.
60. Creationism can be taught in philosophy and religion courses.
61. I love spicy food.
62. I used to pack my own lunches for school when I was quite young. I would often pack several candy bars and a juice box.
63. My parents used to cart me off to camp every summer. I hated it.
64. My parents would try to psych me up for it and tell me that they KNEW I loved it. I suspect they just wanted the house to themselves.
65. I don't plan to ever have kids, but if I did, I'd probably try to cart them off to camp too.
66. One summer I shared a tent with a girl who obviously didn't think highly of me. Our tent was on a platform about 2 feet off the ground. Every night, she'd push me out of the tent while I slept. I'd wake up when I hit the ground, trapped in my sleeping bag.
67. It rained most nights that summer.
68. I really hated summer camp.
69. I have traveled across the US, to Mexico, Costa Rica and Switzerland.
70. I hope to have the opportunity to travel much more.
71. I know some sign language and some French.
72. It's unlikely anyone fluent in either would know what I was trying to say.
73. My Birthday is February 18th.
74. I love my birthday.
75. I started knitting when I was in the first grade.
76. My mom tried to teach me earlier, but got frustrated with me.
77. I also taught myself to crochet.
78. I crocheted many afghans in college.
79. I tried to sell my afghans at a consignment shop but the cost of materials to make one well exceeded the money people were willing to pay for it.
80. This amazed me since I used the cheapest yarn available.
81. I really hate bugs.
82. I can't even watch them on TV.
83. I usually read the owners manual for anything I buy.
84. I always seem to forget coupons.
85. I pronounce it "koo-pon."
86. I'm a good cribbage player.
87. I used to be a very good swimmer.
88. I have never been able to color in the lines.
89. I've never been arrested.
90. I've never done anything for spring break.
91. I'm a very slow reader.
92. If I had been a boy, my name would be Adam
93. My real name is Marna.
94. Only my grandmother calls me Marna.
95. If someone calls the house looking for "Marna" there is a very good chance it's a telemarketer.
96. I would prefer you called me Marnie.
97. I didn't think the Alfred Hitchcock move, Marnie, was very good.
98. I can't sing.
99. I've never been on a diet.
100. I love having people make things from my patterns.

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